The Gildencroft

TG 21 NW HORSHAM ST. FAITH & NORWICH ROAD NEWTON ST. FAITH No. 56 (The Gildencroft). 2/49 - II

House, late C17/early C18. Red brick, partly colourwashed, with some flint and limestone dressings. Roofs steeply-pitched, pantiled and plaintiled. Two storeys and attics, T-shaped plan. Main facade to east : three bays, two- and three-light casements with mullions and transoms; ground floor openings altered. String course of limestone blocks at first floor level. Plinth of limestone, rendered over and 'ashlared'. Rusticated brick quoins. Central four-panel door, moulded wooden doorcase with key block and dentilled frieze. Lead-covered canopy with modillions. Modillion eaves cornice. Two gabled dormers with two-light casements. Shaped north and south gables with internal stacks. Blocked attic window and two sashes with architraves and glazing bars in south gable. Large external stack on south-west side now capped-off at eaves level. Later one-storey hipped wing at north gable. Rear wing of brick, partly colourwashed, with sashes and 'cross' casements. C20 flat roofed additions on north side. Axial chimney stack; parapeted west gable with internal stack. On south side later segmental-headed wide sash windows with glazing bars, semi-circular headed doorway with half-glazed door and leaded side-lights.

Listing NGR: TG2180615447